Street Artists, Part One. This rainy day is just the right day to peruse the photos of my September trip to Italy. I can’t believe that I’ve been home for a little over five weeks; it seems so long ago. And yet, was it just yesterday that I was stumbling upon the street artists of Florence? One day on the sidewalk an artist would be copying a Vermeer, the next day only faint color remained. Outside the Uffizi, statues of Leonardo or Dante would disappear, only to reappear in the Piazza della Signoria. Every evening musicians appeared along the Loggia dei Lanzi. I hear it’s been it’s been a rainy fall in Florence since I left. Where do the artist go as the weather changes and the tourists thin out?